ads in schools

[clayton_e]

I'm starting a protest on ads in my school, anyone have any ideas, questions or comments?

[Palve]

If the Simpsons have taught us anything about protests at schools, it's not to use Armour hot dogs.

[SouprChckn]

Yeah, its not going to change much I doubt. Advertising has pervaded almost every facet of our lives. What you don't see IN the school you'll probably end up seeing right outside the school on a bus, or a billboard, or on TV, or the movies, or a bathroom stall, etc... You're likely not going to seperate your school from a revenue stream like that unless you give them equal amounts of your own money or provide an acceptable replacement for the ads.

[clayton_e]

I have done this before and won, against a summer camp. Was rather interesting, but it was just myself vs the camp. This time it's a school, differently structured, but I have many on my side. I do not know how it will turn out.

[beergeek279]

I also don't think that the taxpayers in your school district will be all too pleased to face a tax hike to replace this lost revenue. If Pepsi will put that $75,000 scoreboard up for exclusive distribution rights at your school, or Channel One puts televisions in every room in the high school, then this means that your parents' tax burden is that much lower, and I certainly support that!

[mnemosyne]

Besides, with advertising at school, there's ALWAYS something to read about in the washroom!

Lately it's been the "AM I normal?" Yeast infection ad. And the "sorry for the rape" one.

Great fun.

[clayton_e]

Originally posted by RugbyMan
I also don't think that the taxpayers in your school district will be all too pleased to face a tax hike to replace this lost revenue. If Pepsi will put that $75,000 scoreboard up for exclusive distribution rights at your school, or Channel One puts televisions in every room in the high school, then this means that your parents' tax burden is that much lower, and I certainly support that!

It's a private school, no state funding.

[GraceTX]

Originally posted by clayton_e
I'm starting a protest on ads in my school, anyone have any ideas, questions or comments?

Yes, why? What's your beef with advertising at the school? Why are you protesting? Are they buying books for the library or are they using it to fund the faculty Christmas party?

I'm not being flip, but you only say you're protesting ads. I want to know why.

[clayton_e]

I am angry because the school is allowing news broadcasts of channel 1 news, a childrens news program, to be aired in the homerooms. The students are not allowed to do anything but watch the news, even while commercials are on. The commercials are ones like on tv such as ones for gum, movies, games etc.. They are specialized to appeal to the teen public. The students lose an hour a week watching this, and we can't do anything about it, until now. The school has no right to impede upon our rights, we do not want to be sold.

[GraceTX]

So your problem isn't really with the ads? It's with the school forcing you to watch a 10-minute news program containing commercials. You'd like to be able to do other things during this time?

[beergeek279]

Originally posted by clayton_e
I am angry because the school is allowing news broadcasts of channel 1 news, a childrens news program, to be aired in the homerooms. The students are not allowed to do anything but watch the news, even while commercials are on. The commercials are ones like on tv such as ones for gum, movies, games etc.. They are specialized to appeal to the teen public. The students lose an hour a week watching this, and we can't do anything about it, until now. The school has no right to impede upon our rights, we do not want to be sold.

Well, I will agree with you on the utterly moronic nature of Channel One. The "news" (if you can call it that) generally appears to be put together for the sake of selling advertising, as opposed to informing students (otherwise, why wouldn't they put CNN on in the mornings?) However, the general fact of the matter is that more than likely, the parent company of Channel One probably gave the school the television that you watch the show on, in exchange for a fairly long-term agreement to purchase Channel One programming (I remember hearing something in the neighborhood of 7-10 years). In that eventuality, it would probably be fairly difficult to break the lease (and trust me....I feel your pain........it will be 5 years out of high school at the end of this school year and I STILL remember how poor Ch.1 was!) so maybe your best course of action would be to discuss your feelings with your teacher.

[BlackKnight]

Originally posted by RugbyMan
I feel your pain........it will be 5 years out of high school at the end of this school year and I STILL remember how poor Ch.1 was!)

[hijack]Anderson Cooper was the only reporter with any talent, which is why he left. The others were horrid. The worst part is that we were forced to watch this, even though it was not in an actual class or for any class. (It was the equivalent of homeroom.) I still remember their special guest star one episode of Carrot Top. *shudder*[/hijack]

[SouprChckn]

They FORCE you to watch TV in school? What kind of school is this? What happens if you play a game instead, do they beat you or something? I thought when you meant ads, they just had ads on the walls or on vending machines. This sounds like a Nazi deathcamp... of TV.

I suggest that you consult your uniform discipline code to specifically determine if you actually have the right to not watch this show. If you have a legitimate case, you could probably find a way out of it or sue their asses. If you find that you actually don't have any rights (which is sometimes the case) you're either out of luck or you will need to bring it up w/ parental units and get them to help in the cause. I'm glad theres no crazy TV at my school.

[saepiroth]

at my school, the TVs are in the rooms courtesy of the building grant they used to build the school.

so, the shows they do at "JAG time" are all either news('cause there's a cable hookup for the school) or pieces done by art/broadcast students. those are sometimes kinda interesting; they had one on tuesday that involved the pillsbury doughboy being baked alive. and then having his fresh and fluffy corpse eaten. it was neat.